Deploy preparation fails because a leftover supervisor config directory exists

Error recorded 3 times in PanelAlpha Engine deploys. The deploy log below is the recorded failure output.

Seen3 times · 3 variants

Why it happens

While the Engine prepares the account, it creates the account's supervisor configuration directory with a plain mkdir. The directory was left over from an earlier, unfinished preparation, so mkdir fails with "File exists" and the deploy stops. This is an Engine account-provisioning problem, not a problem in the deployed project.

What the log looks like

Deploy log
mkdir: cannot create directory '/opt/panelalpha/shared-hosting/users/<account>/supervisord.conf.d': File exists

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